Hosting.com and Terremark appear to be running vCloud Express already. It’s a little early to call, but with prices like those EC2 could be in real trouble. (And with “100% Fiber Attached Storage” there should still be plenty of room to bring the prices down.)
The Register: VMware plots world data centre domination.
Backblaze: Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. Given that cloud is an operations model, not a technology I’m a little tired of the meme that cloud storage equals cold storage. It’s also unfair not to include (considerable) NRE in the pricing.
Con Kolivas: BFS scheduler for Linux. Now that’s opinionated software. I’m guessing most of the benefits are due to using a single run queue.
Xiaohui Xin: Virtual Machine Device Queues(VMDq) support for KVM. It looks like we have all the pieces to make Linux a great hypervisor; somebody just needs to put them together.
OpenOnload is a high performance mostly-userspace network stack for Linux for SolarFlare NICs.
Ars Technica: Despite changes, Wikipedia will still “fail within 5 years”. Which is more important, the wiki or the pedia?
TLF: Privacy Elitists Launch All-Out Attack on Personalized Advertising Online. I wonder if we could put this to some kind of cognitive psychology test.
